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So humid that the mist never broke all day. Everything was slimy and wet making outdoor activities not much fun. Now it rained all night and it's pea soup fog out there ruining (at least) the morning. That upcoming dry shot will probably get muted like the decent weather the last few and next few days did. If you had looked at the NWS forecasts a few days ago you would have planned all sorts of outdoor stuff but instead we got this...

Yuck, it rained almost all night and now everything is soaked and soggy(er?) and my wife and I will be outside all day doing a craft fair. That's another thing that's impacted badly by this weather is outside fairs, we've had more marginal ones than good ones this year. @Juliancolton we'll be a little NE of you in Austerlitz at the historical society fair, you should come by the Looming Madness tent and say hey.

I'm so over this always cloudy BS. I just want a few sunny days in a row. Today is a real downer

It's 56*, misty, drizzling and cold. Heckuva way to run a nice couple of days

11* is huge. Up here it shouldn't be more than just a few and that's entirely due to high minimums because the daytime temps are ~70 give or take a few.

I was out in CO that year and we had a very early season round of snow in September that put down enough that we were skiing off the divide in top of the boots deep on 9/20 and by the 23rd it was deep enough to be out on snowmobiles and doing some decent backcountry skiing. The first couple of days we were using 4x4's to do shuttle runs and on the 22nd I was one of the last trucks off the pass in my Landcruiser FJ55 with snow up to the hood by the end of the day. Fun times

There are always some trees that turn very early. Whether it's due to soil chemistry or something else I don't know but, there are a few trees that change early every year by me and it's always the same trees or at least the same group of trees.

2".

Looks like 2" here, 2.3 1/4 mi S and 1.95 a mile N.

When I went through Poughkeepsie it wasn't too bad but by 6 around Pleasant Valley and then over and down the Taconic it was challenging to say the least. The further south I went the worse it was though and by the time I got here it was deep on the roads. Just south of me it looks like it was/is even worse.

Oh heheh look at that

I drove through some torrential rains today around the lower Hudson Valley and I'm getting slammed pretty good here at home right now with raging heavy rain, lightning and big booming thunder. At the bottom of my hill the water was past the bottom of the car where the creeks are that drain the hill so if I wanted to get home I had to drive through it. Fun

No this started at the end of July. I wanted to go back to March. I went back through page 2 and strangely enough it's not there but other threads are.

Hmmph it's been gloomy with 1/4 mile vis fog and drizzle here all morning and it hasn't even hit 60* yet.

Oops sloppy fingers I meant to hit 4 so about 40" in March unless I'm forgetting something in the last week and a bit over 60" for the winter season.

Hey where's our winter thread? I want to go back and look at something. My search-fu is weak

I had ~60" in March, a decent storm in early January, below 0 a couple of times and days that barely reached the mid-teens but somehow it just didn't seem like an A winter. Yup that Feb storm was quite the fluke in a sea of warmth, I think I got something like 8 or 10". I also only used about 2/3 the amount of heating oil that I expect to use but we were still running the heat much later into the year than we usually do which is part of why I don't have the warm fuzzies for the winter as a whole, it was warm overall. 10/11 was a good winter, would have been really great if it hadn't ended so abruptly (or was that 9/10 that just shut off?). I think it was 03/04 that was a wall to wall winter, didn't end up with outrageous totals but it started strong on 12/5 and just kept going right through the end of March. I didn't get back here until April 96 so I missed the best of it but I was here for 93/94 and remember that as the first of the great winters in the modern era. I'd also put 77/78 in as one of the good ones. I like winters with a long lasting, solid snowpack that gets refreshed regularly even if it's just a couple of wispy inches at a time.

We got that here too but it still felt like mostly wasted cold because it was dry for the first week or so. I dunno, it just felt like a half baked kind of winter that was frustrating because of the early March disaster when we lost power for a week.

I have a hard time with last year being a great winter. Yes March was pretty inspiring and that early January cold shot was significant but as a whole I have a hard time giving the winter a higher grade than a B+. That warm 6 weeks and the warmth in between the snows in March just killed it for me. Today turned out to be an ok day, a bit too muggy for my tastes this morning and not enough sun but temps are reasonable.

It's so uncomfortable out there, muggy ugly dead air

It's looking like a mostly dry week around here but you don't have to go far and it's all about wet. I need to spend a few days on the road this week and was hoping for nice fall traveling weather and early leaf peeping.

This makes me sad

End of January through February was crazy warm and we lost all snow cover.

I was out on eastern LI yesterday and it was significantly more green than just a few weeks ago.